Dhaka: Only after a pause from online social life, Bangladeshi people have realized how important the online social networking is in their daily life.

According to a survey covering 7395 Bangladeshi mobile internet users conducted by UC Browser, a third-party mobile browser, 75.6% Bangladeshi mobile internet users acknowledged the benefit of social networking sites while only 6.8% did not agree.

The most popular social networking site in Bangladesh is Facebook, with 85.1% dominant vote, and over 70% people are heavy online social networking users, spending more than 1 hour per day.

The survey shows that online relationships are not inferior to in-person relationships. Over half of the people have more than 300 friends on Facebook.

Managing Director of UC Web International Business Department Kenny Ye said, ‘Bangladesh is one of our most important market and we are glad to see our increasing development here. We will continue improving our products and providing better experience to Bangladeshi users.  Our team is working on UC Browser Bangla version.’